B134 crash in Tower Hamlets on 23 November 2023 at 05:20 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A Honda WW125 motorcycle crashed on the B134 in Tower Hamlets at 05:20 on Thursday 23 November 2023. The 25-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 2023
- Thursday, 05:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda WW125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51576, longitude -0.06913, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010480132
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 134
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2022.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 18 June 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010383067
Slight
Car crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 23 September 1999
8 m awayRef 199901HT01059
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 18 August 1998
8 m awayRef 199801HT00460
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 17 January 2022
12 m awayRef 2022010355213
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 21 October 2014
16 m awayRef 201401HT20964
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 29 August 1993
29 m awayRef 199301HD00202
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda WW125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2023010480132 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tower Hamlets road accident statistics for 2023.